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tweener
  1. (sports) A person who plays at two positions, not good enough at either to be restricted to it.
  2. (tennis) A shot that is hit between the legs.
  3. (informal) A tweenager
  4. (computing) A computing device that is smaller than a traditional laptop, but larger than a PDA.
  5. (professional wrestling slang) A professional wrestler who is neutral or morally ambiguous; neither a face nor a heel, or showing no favoritism to either allegiance.
  6. (cinematography) A person, machine or piece of software that performs tweening.
  7. (informal) A film that falls between two genres (and thus may not be easily marketed).
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  9. Examples:
    1. “Respect has been hard to come by for the Syracuse product, who was touted as an underachiever in college is expected to be a tweener in the pros.”
      “They felt he was a limited guy, sort of a safety-linebacker tweener who lacked size at linebacker and speed at safety.”
      “He is the classic NBA tweener, shooting a high percentage, but struggling against the bigger bodies down low.”
tweeny
  1. (tennis) A shot played between the legs; a tweener.
  2. (now historical) A between-maid, or maidservant who helps the cook as well as the housemaid.
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tweenism
  1. (rare) A predisposition towards tweens.
  2. (rare) A habit or attitude typical of tweens.
tweening
  1. (animation) A technique in film animation for generating intermediate frames such that one image evolves smoothly into the next.
tweenager
  1. A young human being that is not yet technically a teenager (being less than thirteen years old), but starting to act like one—generally eight to twelve years old.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The most dangerous toy I encountered as a tweenager was my cousin's new pogo stick.”
      “They star as two of the kids in a cunning casting move designed to appeal to the tweenager crowd.”
tween
  1. A child, usually a girl, in the age range between young childhood and adolescence, normally between 10 and 12 years of age.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Because the results of a shape tween can be unpredictable, you can set shape hints to let Flash know how to proceed with the tween.”
tweenybopper
  1. (informal) The tween equivalent of a teenybopper; a pre-teen with teenybopper interests.
tween
  1. (animation) An action of tweening (inserting frames for continuity); a sequence of frames generated by tweening.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Because the results of a shape tween can be unpredictable, you can set shape hints to let Flash know how to proceed with the tween.”
tweenification
  1. (rare) Conversion to the norms or fashion of tweens.
tweenie
  1. A child who is not quite old enough to be a teenager.
tweendom
  1. The stage, state, or world of tweens; tweens collectively.
tweenness
  1. (rare) The quality of being a tween.
tweenhood
tweenies
tweenyboppers
  1. plural of tweenybopper
tweenagers
  1. plural of tweenager
  2. Examples:
    1. “As you can see, the choice of shares for tweenagers is bounded only by your child's personal interests.”
      “The professor argues that tweenagers are influenced by peer pressure and that branding helps them to become part of groups.”
tweenisms
  1. plural of tweenism
tweendoms
  1. plural of tweendom
tweenings
  1. plural of tweening
tweeners
  1. plural of tweener
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “All those remote-control toys bought for tweeners get played with for an hour or two and then get sunk into the miasma of a child's bedroom.”
      “He clearly adores his kids, who are all stalwart, funny and, for tweeners, preternaturally considerate.”
      “While both belong in the back end of a rotation, our next three pitchers are tweeners.”
tweens
  1. plural of tween
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  3. Examples:
    1. “This 14-minute piece is simply a conglomeration of vignettes of tweens and young women doing a variety of things in the bathroom.”
      “He also learned that tweens are apt to regard big marketing blitzes with suspicion and distrust.”
      “But this group who are tweens right now I see as being taken hostage in a dangerous experiment.”
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